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Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
He who makes a paradise of his bread makes a hell of his hunger.
Aristotle
It is better to rise from life as from a banquet - neither thirsty nor drunken.
Confucius, Analects
To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.
Dave Barry, "Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn"
No matter what happens... somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.
Don Marquis
The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.
Edmund Burke
My good friends, while I do most earnestly recommend you to take care of your health and safety, as things most precious to us, I would not have that care degenerate into an effeminate and over-curious attention, which is always disgraceful to a man's self, and often troublesome to others.
Edward Gorey
Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.
English Proverb
Enough is as good as a feast.
Epicurus
Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
Henry Miller
I soon found out you can't change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it.
Michel de Montaigne
We find our energies are actually cramped when we are overanxious to succeed.
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab
The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
Samuel Butler, Note-Books, 1912
From a worldly point of view there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
William Shakespeare
We may outrunBy violent swiftnessAnd lose by over-running.
William Shakespeare
They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.
William Wordsworth
To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.
 
 
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